Phil Duncan, in Congressional Quiet inCongress Quarterly Weekly Report (Mar. 24, 1984),
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In the 1980 elections, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives suffered a dramatic loss of 33 seats. Two years later it was the Republi- cans' turn to be ambushed: They lost 26 seats. Duncan, a Congressional Quarterly staff writer, predicts that 1984 will provide both parties a respite from all the excitement.
There are a number of reasons for the eerie calm...